asciilifeform: shinohai: bot fell?
asciilifeform: !w poll
watchglass: Polling 15 nodes...
watchglass: 185.85.38.54:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 185.163.46.29:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.085s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=680017
watchglass: 108.31.170.100:8333 : (pool-108-31-170-100.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.095s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=679823 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.142s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=679983
watchglass: 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.023s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=680008 (Operator: whaack)
watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.112s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=680017
watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.173s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=680006
watchglass: 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.139s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=680017
watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.197s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=680017
watchglass: 84.16.46.130:8333 : (182518.pk.3pp.slovanet.sk) Alive: (0.230s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=474643
watchglass: 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.331s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=679975
watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.322s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=680017
asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
btcinfobot: Current BTC price in USD: $55472.53
shinohai: As much as I despise chat apps, at least the bot *stays connected* to telegram.
shinohai: BusyBotadmin
shinohai: The bot has been up for: 49 days 22 hours 10 minutes and 8 seconds
asciilifeform: !q uptime
snsabot: asciilifeform: time since my last reconnect : 22d 3h 42m
asciilifeform: shinohai: normally mine stays connected until the fleanode box it was sitting on reboots.
gregorynyssa: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2021-04-20#1034263 << I received that message as well from "dpb."
snsabot: Logged on 2021-04-20 17:00:54 verisimilitude: I recall one fellow here sending me a private message about avoiding Hell and whatnot.
gregorynyssa: Protestant Reformation had four branches (Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, and Anabaptist) but almost all American-style Protestantism is based on the fourth.
asciilifeform: gregorynyssa: subj.
gregorynyssa: even most Calvinists in America are, in reality, Baptists (Anabaptists) with Calvinist characteristics.
asciilifeform can't recall ever meeting a troo hardcore 'predestined' calvinist
thimbronion: I did, this guy: https://twitter.com/JWWeatherman_
thimbronion: He's been exiled from the twitter bitoin influencer community for criticizing their HW wallet idiocy.
thimbronion: These "Bitcoin Maximalists" are out there rocking Casa HODL and Cold Card.
gregorynyssa: thimbronion: asciilifeform: so HW wallets are bad?
thimbronion: gregorynyssa: yes.
asciilifeform: gregorynyssa: unless you know how to ecdsa/ripemd/etc in yer head, ~all~ wallets are 'hard'
asciilifeform: gregorynyssa: or is q specifically re particular gadget marketed as 'wallet' ?
asciilifeform recalls in ye olde #t there was a thread erry yr or so, re 'wallets' ; erry linked example had either 'mystery meat' design, i.e. closed, or known rubbish trng; and all of'em required prb on pc end to function..
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: I am talking about the gadget. like Trezor or Ledger.
asciilifeform: gregorynyssa: see above.
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: fair points.
shinohai: Ledger is no-go simply because ordering one likely to get you doxxed.
asciilifeform: shinohai: elaborate?
shinohai: (But what asciilifeform says is troo, most require prb/electrum etc to operate.)
shinohai: asciilifeform: Ledger got all their customer info leaked to "tormarkets" users are now being inundated with BTC ransom demands lest "we come to yer house to attack you and family"
asciilifeform: maybe also they will put voodoo curse on you? as far as annoyances go, this'd have to be somewhere near bottom of the list of reasons to eschew $subj
shinohai: Well they could voodoo-shrink my dick then the girls would go back to Colombia and I'd have to get subpar hippos to do shit around here like MP.
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform never grasped 'doxing' etc. on his www is his human name, and who wants to can easily find in meatspace.
asciilifeform: however never tried 'ledger', 'trezor', etc. given as these all have asinine design which requires a pc with prb. defeating the entire nominal purpose of the box.
asciilifeform bbl.
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: modern culture (esp. American) has a tendency to view "harassment" as a crime on par with rape.
thimbronion: There is this anarcho-tyranny thing going on right now.
thimbronion: Media unpersons you, doxes you, then schizos or BLM show up at your door and finish the job.
gregorynyssa: thimbronion: do you think this will get worse as Biden presidency goes on?
thimbronion: only for prominent figures
asciilifeform: thimbronion: why is it that asciilifeform can't name even 1 such 'finished' ?
asciilifeform: the only possible candidate that comes to mind is ian murdoch (debian), possibly beaten to death in police station and called 'suicide'. but that was last decade.
asciilifeform: ... it's lulzy, i can't name even 1 proven case of 'media unpersoned, then lynched' ; but have spoken with what must be two dozen folx quaking in their boots re subj
asciilifeform: 'coward dies a thousand deaths'
verisimilitude: We're fairly obscure, but there's a real risk of the US media telling the negroes to kill someone.
verisimilitude: There was that teenager CNN threatened.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: what to you means phrase 'real risk' ? is e.g. ufo abduction, also 'a real risk' ?
verisimilitude: It's wishful thinking, but sure.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it's ego masturbation, is what it is. neither you nor i will ever so much as meet anyone worthy of 'napalm from helicopter' or even any cheaper usg hit; much less merit personally
verisimilitude: Anyway, I'll just hide my name until I don't feel I'm not harming myself otherwise; the present never seems a good time.
verisimilitude: Where's the harm in some masturbation?
verisimilitude: Also, there was that drama involving that blog and the NYT.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: none, so long as you realize it's what yer doing. and accept the cost (e.g. on my www is name, pgp key, and result is... lynching? nope, instead moar offers of work than i know what to do with)
snsabot: Logged on 2021-04-21 16:20:11 verisimilitude: Also, there was that drama involving that blog and the NYT.
snsabot: Logged on 2020-06-23 12:41:34 asciilifeform: thimbronion: fella was an obnoxious establishment tool, and imho even now 'made own bed' :
snsabot: Logged on 2021-01-21 16:36:19 asciilifeform: to the point where they created entire synthetic 'astroturf' subculture pushing 'benefits of anonymity' etc
snsabot: Logged on 2020-06-23 13:35:08 asciilifeform: folx who fixate on 'anonism' are wanking on 'mania of grandeur' imho
verisimilitude: I can't use Tor effectively right now, due to multiple hardware failures, so I stopped worrying about it for now.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 1st small step to complete cure.
verisimilitude: I've long recognized sending most of my traffic over Tor is unnecessary, but I still do it when it's easy.
asciilifeform: ( and also on subj. )